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District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), is a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States.It ruled that the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects an individual's right to keep and bear arms for traditionally lawful purposes such as self-defense within the home, and that the District of Columbia's handgun ban and requirement that lawfully owned rifles ...
Antonin Scalia’s disastrous ruling in District of Columbia v. Heller created a constitutional Frankenstein, historian writes. Replace Second Amendment with one that makes sense in the blood ...
Heller, which found an individual right to own a firearm under the Second Amendment. Scalia traced the word "militia", found in the Second Amendment, as it would have been understood at the time of its ratification, stating that it then meant "the body of all citizens". [114] The Court upheld Heller's claim to own a firearm in the District. [114]
The 2007 term of the Supreme Court of the United States began October 1, 2007, and concluded September 30, 2008. This was the twenty-second term of Associate Justice Antonin Scalia 's tenure on the Court.
diplomatic recognition • separation of powers • Article Two • U.S. position on status of Jerusalem • Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 2003 • passport designation of births in Jerusalem
Navajo Nation • Navajo-Hopi Rehabilitation Act of 1950 • Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 • failure of Secretary of Interior to promptly approve tribal coal lease royalty rate increase Unanimous
Scalia maintained that such an “approach would make deference a doctrine of desperation, authorizing courts to defer only if they would otherwise be unable to construe the enactment at issue ...
Citing Justice Antonin Scalia, Texas says it can arrest migrants who cross the border illegally, as a test of federal supremacy over immigration enforcement heads back to the Supreme Court.